Workshop 17: MetMUnch: A Magic Recipe For

Success

Haleh Moravej, Senior Lecturer, Manchester

Metropolitan University; Floyd Johnson, MetMUncher,

Nutritional Sciences Student, Manchester Metropolitan

University and Abdullah Al Ali, MetMUncher, Nutritional

Sciences Student, Manchester Metropolitan University

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MetMUnch: A Magic Recipe For Success

Haleh Moravej, Abdullah Al Ali & Floyd Johnson

A flexible platform of

social enterprise,

sustainability,

employability, creativity

and community run by

students for students

MetMUnch

Biomedical Scientist

Passionate sustainability curators

Purposeful Fun

Self Sufficient Entrepreneurs

A New Model of Education

Hobbit to Harry

Sustainability Journey

MMU as a sustainability boot camp

Creativity

Business model back to front, no starting budget: Empowered, engaged & ”fire In The belly” students

A New 21st Century Business

Model

Which one comes first? Employability after education? Or skills are learnt during employability? Or can you have both in parallel? Going beyond employability concept at university

Chicken or egg? Must be Organic!

Dare to work with Sustainability

Students as partners

Self-esteem, psychosocial development

I-Think Manual (RED 5K Enterprise Fellowship award -2010- 2011)

• Teaching students how to think

• Transforming classroom theory into practice and personalization to enhance self- awareness and self- esteem

• Asking students to design a unique manual to explain who they are, what they what from their education and how they are going to achieve it.

Empowering students & enhance cognitive development

• Accommodation: adapting to the environment

• Changeable environment so it is always fresh (embedded in Nutrition 21 first year unit)

• Moving the lectures and learning to factories, GMP training academy, exhibitions, sustainable buildings, ethical factories, conferences, community settings and other faculties.

• “This unit keeps everything fresh”

(ISS Applied Nutrition 2013)

Enhanced Student Experience

• Level of academic challenge : continually reconsidering, redesigning curriculum content (current, personalised, holistic)

• Active and collaborative learning: driven by students by active participation MetMuch Fairtrade ChocolateMile, working with elderly community of Sale, Sustainable Salads, Soreen Recipe Book, Moorhouses Brewery,

Manchester Modernist Society, Banana Selfies, Fairtrade Foundation

Enrichment

• Enriching educational experiences: GMP food and mood training sessions( 600 police officers), Loreto College( 300 Sixth formers) , Manchester Moss Side Academy ( 1000 kids) Manchester Council =Hulme Winter Festival (700 free meals) 2012& 2013

• Student faculty interaction and supportive “super campus” environment: MetMUnch working with MMUnion, MMU Futures, MMU Environment Team, Manchester Children Book Festival, MMU catering, MMU HR Mind, Body, Spirit Week, MMU CELT ( EGGucational Breakfast for new lecturers)

Unlimited Learning

“MetMUnch can make you feel everything is possible in the world, you just need to act on your ideas to make it happen.

I feel that after my graduation I can still do something

(MMUnion Awards 2013)

Public Engagement

• Approximately 40,962 people reached

• +4,000,000 BBC listeners (9 radio stations at 5am)

• Starting budget : 0

• £7,582 in one year

• £4,047 spent

GMP Sustainable Food and Mood Training

• “I would like to thank the MMU speakers for their excellent

input. This is a topic I have been struggling with for some

years. I will be taking on board the advice”

• All speakers from the Uni were brilliant, cracking input. Every

officer should be made to attend this!”

• “More of this please, this is exactly what 21 century police

officers need, best input in 28 years of service”

Learnt From Every Mistakes

Solo Journey of a Lecturer

Students As Partners& colleagues

Used Every Opportunity

By Doing You Become

A Sustainability Camera

It takes time and lots of effort but it is worth it

MetMUnch A unique and successful partnership

EAUC National & International Student engagement with sustainability Awards

Feel The Fear But do It Anyway

Who am I?

My journey to the UK

How did I find out about MetMunch?

Why do we need sustainability?

The Future

What have I learned?

• OMG – This woman wants

something more!

• Carpe Diem

• What have we got to lose?

• Flexible – open to everyone,

different commitments

MetMunch

Mul-Tea Cultural Event

Organised Chaos: MetMunch

MetMunch Connections, Partnerships, and Engagement

come from:

• Sincerity

• Loving what we do by making sure we do what we love

• Improvising, Creativity

• Having fun

• Open-minded, experimental

Why MetMunch?

MetMunch

Thank You…

Questions?